My experience just now with a fresh download: the default start and enter homeless shelter, play for about 2 weeks in game time, get job at Hooters, start to meet new plot-relevant NPCs, stop being paid at Hooters, forced to pay rent three times over 6 days, get kicked out of the homeless shelter despite having gainful employment. Pointless grind on top of that, including some that is just nonsensical. You can walk for more than 2 hours total as you go around the city, work an eight hour shift, eat sparingly, and you still gain weight unless you pay boatloads for a workout outfit. Your face is described as being so ugly that people actively avoid you, despite there being no clear way to do anything about that.
Being told that your character in a sex game is hideously unfuckable is the opposite of eroticism, and the game feels like it needs the player to cheat in order to function. Get it together, folks.